The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.
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Cast
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Setsuko Hara
Teruko
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Haruko Sugimura
Koyabu
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Kaneto Shindō
Also in
The Battleship on the Ground
Hymn
Kazuo Funahashi
Masahisa Sunohara
Rieko Sumi
Kazue
Known for
Sound of the Mountain
Kazue Nagatsuka
Yoshihide Nakayama
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Ebihara
Also in
A Visage to Remember
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Shuichiro Nakamura
Sugisaku Aoyama
Known for
Ugetsu
Sanshiro Sugata
Akira Ifukube
Masahisa Sunohara Director · Kaneto Shindō Screenplay Yasutaro Yagi Screenplay
First release October 14, 1950 · Produced in Japan · Original title 七色の花
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Toyoko Eiga
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Japan
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Original title
七色の花
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 14, 1950
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